Please enjoy the music while your party is reached...

There's no music, just a lack of "party" aka- Me- to be reached.

What if that silly cell phone music just played forever?

Flack Gobbler Palin

A blog I read, sent me to This, and I found out that if I were Sarah Palin's daughter, Flack would be my name!

Adam would be Ammo Canal Palin.
Brianna would be Crop Shooner Palin.
Grant would be Tape Boise Palin.

I thought it was pretty funny.
What is your "Palin Name"?

I'm not so sure...

Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz...

You Are a Doris!

You are a Doris -- "I must help others."

Dorises are warm, concerned, nurturing, and sensitive to other people's needs.

How to Get Along with Me

• * Tell me that you appreciate me. Be specific.


• * Share fun times with me.


• * Take an interest in my problems, though I will probably try to focus on yours.


• * Let me know that I am important and special to you.


• * Be gentle if you decide to criticize me.

In Intimate Relationships

• * Reassure me that I am interesting to you.


• * Reassure me often that you love me.


• * Tell me I'm attractive and that you're glad to be seen with me.

What I Like About Being a Doris

• * being able to relate easily to people and to make friends


• * knowing what people need and being able to make their lives better


• * being generous, caring, and warm


• * being sensitive to and perceptive about others' feelings


• * being enthusiastic and fun-loving, and having a good sense of humor

What's Hard About Being a Doris

• * not being able to say no


• * having low self-esteem


• * feeling drained from overdoing for others


• * not doing things I really like to do for myself for fear of being selfish


• * criticizing myself for not feeling as loving as I think I should


• * being upset that others don't tune in to me as much as I tume in to them


• * working so hard to be tactful and considerate that I suppress my real feelings

Dorises as Children Often

• * are very sensitive to disapproval and criticism


• * try hard to please their parents by being helpful and understanding


• * are outwardly compliant


• * are popular or try to be popular with other children


• * act coy, precocious, or dramatic in order to get attention


• * are clowns and jokers (the more extroverted Dorises), or quiet and shy (the more introverted Dorises)

Dorises as Parents

• * are good listeners, love their children unconditionally, and are warm and encouraging (or suffer guilt if they aren't)


• * are often playful with their children


• * wonder: "Am I doing it right?" "Am I giving enough?" "Have I caused irreparable damage?"


• * can become fiercely protective

Take Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz at HelloQuizzy

Things families shouldn't share

But don't have a choice.... GERMS!

Brianna was sick...
Then I was sick...
Now Grant is sick...

But he is so cute with his hoarse little voice. He still doesn't stop talking, he just sounds cuter somehow.

Heaven forbid Adam get sick! He's the biggest baby of us all!

So, I am at work

And Brianna is at school... for now. Although she made it through the night with no problems, and was more or less herself this morning, I am waiting with one ear for a phone call to come pick her up.

SO- I do nothing at work! Except this:

1. YOUR REAL NAME: (Edited out)
2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle) johizzle
3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color and favorite animal) red dog
4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (your middle name and street you live on/or neighborhood if it's a number) Kate Summerfields (I like that!!!)
5. Star WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name) Oshjo
6. YOUR SUPERHERO/CRIMINAL NAME: (Your 2nd favorite color and favorite drink) blue diet coke
7. IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, 1st letter of your last name, 2nd letter of your moms maiden name, 3rd letter of your dads name, 1st letter of siblings first name, and last letter of your moms first name). ohooije
8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (parents middle names) Kay Charles (like that too!)
9. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets). Black Gretel
10. Your hood name: (first 3 of your first name and add -iqua) johiqua

Can you hear my heart cracking?

My baby, Brianna, is sick. :-(

I received a call from the day care today that she was complaining of a stomach ache and was teary eyed. When I picked her up, she still said she had a stomach ache and was just listless. No fever, but no appetite or energy either.

By dinner time, puke city. Now she is sleeping on a blanket, piled on a couple towels, on her bed which is now cleared of all the usual stuffed paraphernalia that normally graces every free space. We are hoping for a good night but planning for the worst.

It's times like these that my heart just breaks a little. I can't to anything to help her, she doesn't understand why. Baby- I love you and hope you wake up feeling better! Love, Hugs, and Prayers are all I can offer right now. Someday you'll be a mommy Bri- then you'll understand.

Funny!

Today, Adam and I were speculating on what Grant would be when he grew up, so I asked him...

ME: "Grant, what do you want to be when you grow up?'
GRANT: "Tall enough to reach the Cocoa Krispies!"

What to say?

Not much...

Halloween went well, spread over virtually the whole week so, we have candy EVERYWHERE!

Kids are good. They play nice, they fight, they gang up on us, they love us dearly.

House is good. Went to HOBO today. Bought a decent rug so no one is playing "tackle" on the hardwood in the family room. $50 for a 8x6 rug... pretty good really! That place is a little like a garage sale, or Marshalls, or something. Odd items, for clearance prices. Works though...

Work is still crazy, but not the "earth shattering, who has time to breathe" kind of crazy we were experiencing a week ago. Looking forward to 4 day week this week (Tuesday off for Veterans Day).

TOTALLY enjoying that we have absolutely ZERO commitments this weekend and next... not a single thing on the calendar!

I think that is all for now....